New Zealand police to patrol quarantine hotels after breakouts

Move comes after two people absconded from quarantine, including a man later found to have Covid-19

Police officers will patrol New Zealand's quarantine hotels around-the-clock after a number of people - including a man who tested positive for coronavirus - escaped the managed isolation facilities.

In two separate incidents in Auckland hotels guests in isolation left their quarantine hotels, with one woman escaping over a hedge, and another man over a small fence.